I'm an Embedded Design Engineer. Most of my professional experience has been a Software Engineer, but part of my job at various companies and contracting has also included Field Applications Engineer, Systems Design, Hardware Design, Schematic Capture, PCB Layout, Parts Purchasing, Product Assembly, Testing, and more. My unabridged resume is 6 pages. For privacy and security reasons, most of my employment history isn't stated below.
From 1990 to 1999, I was the SysopofNew World Information Service (NWIS) BBS. It was a free multi-line dial-up modem-based service that ran on Wildcat! BBS software. The BBS primarily targeted engineering and technical users.[1] This was am unpaid personal part-time hobby.
In the early-1990s, I was the author of a MSDOSshareware program called PathTool, which can still be found on the internet as PATHTL23.ZIP.[2][3] This software allows a user to modify the PATH and INCLUDE environment variables, which are commonly used by compilers and other development tools.[4] PathTool was written in C computer language and compiled with Microsoft C/C++ 7.0.
In the mid-1980s, I was a partner in a startup, named Intelligent Dimmer Packs (IDP), that developed the firstMIDI-controlled stage lightingdimmer pack. We showed it at the CES show in Chicago. It was a 6502-based system that controlled 6 channels of 1200 Watts per channel for a total of 7200 Watts. For stress testing, we mounted 6 water heater elements in a metal trash can filled with water and circulated with two garden hose connections on the side. For MIDI SysEx commands, our Manufacturer ID was 02 (see MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification, Section 4.2, Table VIIb; MIDI Manufacturers Association; 1995).[5]
In the early-1980s, I worked in tech support and engineering at CARDCO, which was the worlds largest peripheral manufacturer for the Commodore64 and VIC-20. CARDCO shipped millions of Card Print printer interfaces (designed by Breck Ricketts).
In December 1982 issue of Compute! magazine, appeared my article and code for a "Commodore 64 Sprite Editor".[6][7]
While in high school, I was the recipient of the State and National 4-H Electrical award.[8] In 1978, my math teacher (N.M. Patton) and I went before the school board to start a computer class, which was approved, and I was one of five students in the first computer class at our high school. When I was a junior, I played lineman in our high schoolfootball team that placed 2nd in state playoffs for class 2A schools, and it was notable because our head coach was Dennis Franchione.
631 cities in Kansas, as well as numerous unincorporated communities / ghost towns / counties of Kansas - I have cleaned up every city article and I continuously examine every edit to these article, I reorganize articles per Wikipedia USCITY guideline, I added a census table, update infoboxes, and various ongoing cleanup and improvements.
ARM Cortex-M - I did a major overhaul and expansion, investigated ARM documents and created entire Overview section and "pretty" tables. My text from the development tool section was moved from this article to start the List of ARM Cortex-M development tools article.
SD card - 100% rewrote Electrical Interface section, created tables and drawing for Transfer Modes section, add photos, correct and expand captions for all photos. Merged older microSD and miniSD articles into main article. Misc edits to related SD and MMC card articles and redirects.
I upload each of my photos to Flickr first, then to Wikimedia Commons second, thus each photo is licensed individually and should match between the two sites. For all of my photos with CC-BY-SA and CC-BY licenses, my name isn't required to be shown in photo captions on any official Wikipedia websites, but for all other uses it is required.
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